US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday will look to form a new community of Atlantic nations with another $100 million in initiatives to support the environment and maritime security, officials said.. Subject to congressional approval, the Biden administration will devote another $100 million next year to the effort, in addition to around $400 million already spent each year on maritime initiatives in the Atlantic, the official said.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday will look to form a new community of Atlantic nations with another $100 million in initiatives to support the environment and maritime security, officials said.. Subject to congressional approval, the Biden administration will devote another $100 million next year to the effort, in addition to around $400 million already spent each year on maritime initiatives in the Atlantic, the official said.
A rare operation by the Palestinian Authority security forces to arrest a Hamas member sparked clashes in the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, killing one. . While Abbas's forces maintain security ties with Israel, which has occupied the West Bank since 1967, PA raids targeting Hamas members are not common.
The parents of Madeleine McCann, a three-year-old British girl who disappeared while on a family holiday in 2007, have lost their privacy case at Europe's top rights court against a Portuguese police inspector.. In 2008, those claims were reiterated in a book by the Portuguese police inspector who initially led the case, Goncalo Amaral, prompting the parents to sue for libel.
Silver screens lit up in Indian-administered Kashmir for the first time in a generation at the opening of a new cinema on Tuesday, decades after an armed rebellion shuttered local movie halls.. "We are bringing back a lost era," he said at a ceremony and screening marking the movie house's opening in the city of Srinagar.
At least 11 schoolchildren died in an air strike and firing on a Myanmar village, the United Nations children's agency said, an attack the country's junta said targeted rebels hiding in the area.. "On 16 September, at least 11 children died in an air strike and indiscriminate fire in civilian areas," UNICEF said in a statement issued Monday.
A Hong Konger who played a harmonica to a crowd outside the British consulate during Elizabeth II's funeral was arrested for sedition, police and local media said Tuesday.. On Tuesday, police said a 43-year-old man surnamed Pang was arrested outside the consulate for "seditious acts".
McDonald's in Kyiv re-opened on Tuesday for the first time since Russia's invasion, a sign life was returning to normal in the capital after nearly seven months of war.. "As part of the phased reopening program, seven more stores in Kyiv will open, followed by additional restaurants in the capital and other cities in the west of the country," it added.
For years, Aracely Sanchez went to work without counting her hours, always fearful she could lose her job from one day to the next. . She then spent the next 15 years working in short-term jobs, almost always without a contract, despite the fact she had a valid residency permit.
A rare operation by the Palestinian Authority security forces to arrest a Hamas member sparked clashes in the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, multiple sources said. . While Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's forces maintain security ties with Israel, which has occupied the West Bank since 1967, PA raids targeting Hamas members are not common.
